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BAS News - 2017-08-08 23:36 ERBIL — The United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq announced on Tuesday that preparations are underway to evacuate civilians ahead of a military operation in Tel Afar. UN's aid coordinator for Iraq, Lisa Grande said the organization's team ... 72

Aranews - 2017-08-04 05:42 Marking three years since the Islamic State group (ISIS) attacked the Yezidis in northwestern Iraq, a United Nations-mandated inquiry has called for justice and rescue plans. “The Commission of Inquiry calls on the international community to recognize th ... 91

BAS News - 2017-08-03 20:23 ERBIL — The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq has valued the efforts by Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to shelter and protect thousands of Kurdish Yezidis and other religious or ethnic minorities from the Islamic State (IS). The following i ... 48

BAS News - 2017-08-01 13:18 BAGHDAD — A total of 241 Iraqi civilians were killed and another 277 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in the month of July 2017, according to casualty figures recorded by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UN ... 67

BAS News - 2017-07-31 12:07 ERBIL — The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, Ján Kubiš, decided to appoint a representative of Faily Kurds to the UN in Iraq. On Sunday, a delegation from the Supreme Coordinating Board of the Faily Kurds met with ... 16

Roji Kurd - 2017-07-29 00:02Azad Salawati Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations : Last June 7th, the Presidency of the Autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan announced Iraqi Kurdistan will hold a referendum on its independence on 25 September 2017. The referend ... 64

BAS News - 2017-07-25 16:45 BAGHDAD — Under the Patronage of the Minister of Health and Environment, Adeelah Hamoud Hussien, Public Health Directorate (PHD) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nation ... 68

BAS News - 2017-07-19 00:15 IZMIR — The United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) received on Tuesday, a contribution of $3.5 million from the Government of France, to be used for the assistance programme supporting families affected by conflict in Iraq. The new contribution f ... 59

BAS News - 2017-07-19 00:15 IZMIR — Civilians in Mosul and other parts of Iraq continue suffering from vicious attacks carried out by the Islamic State (IS), the United Nations (UN) envoy for Iraq said on Monday. Jan Kubis told the UN Security Council on Monday, that IS supporters ... 65

BAS News - 2017-07-17 00:27 ERBIL — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that 506 children were killed or injured during the military conflicts between the Iraqi army and Islamic State (IS) militants during the first half of 2017. The Chief of Field Operation at ... 68

BAS News - 2017-07-11 01:22 ERBIL — The United Nations (UN) are ready to support the Iraqi government in the post-Islamic State (IS) process, aiming to establish safe conditions for all displaced civilians to return to their homes in western Mosul, UN Secretary-General's spokespers ... 44

BAS News - 2017-07-10 18:35 MOSUL — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a statement on Monday, expressing its concerns over the hundreds of thousands of people, who have been displaced, killed or injured during the military operations in western Mosul ... 56

BAS News - 2017-07-06 23:22 MOSUL — About 20,000 civilians remain trapped inside the last pockets controlled by the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul's Old City, a senior United Nations (UN) official said. According to Lise Grande, UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, who spoke to AFP on ... 12

BAS News - 2017-07-02 23:01 ERBIL — The food supply situation for 3.5 million Iraqi civilians remains “fragile”, a United Nations (UN) official in Iraq said on Sunday. Fadel al-Zubi, representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said in a statement that nearly 3 ... 49

BAS News - 2017-07-02 02:20 SOFIA — The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) released a report on Saturday, saying 415 people were killed, whereas 300 others were injured in "acts of terrorism and violence", as well as armed conflicts on the territory of Iraq, during ... 48

Waar Media - 2017-06-29 08:34 WAAR-DUHOK: The Trump administration has set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a “close” family or business tie to the United States. The move comes after the Supreme Court partially restored Pr ... 62

Kurdistan24 - 2017-06-28 12:49US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley holds up photos of victims of the Syrian chemical attack during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at UN headquarters, April 5, 2017, in New York City. (Photo: Getty Images) ... 64

BAS News - 2017-06-25 14:38 BAGHDAD — On the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, Ján Kubiš, has remembered the sacrifices made by the Kurdish Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in the war on terrorism, wishing for peace and ... 23

KurdPress - 2017-06-24 09:34Teymour Qaderi, a young Kurdish filmmaker from Kamyaran, in the Iranian northwestern province of Kurdistan, has been selected as ‘Intercultural Leader’ by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC). ... 73

BAS News - 2017-06-23 23:33 SOFIA — The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a statement on Friday, condemning the destruction of the al-Hadba minaret and the Grand al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul's Old City, demolished by the so-called Islamic S ... 55

BAS News - 2017-06-21 02:05 BAGHDAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of €28 million from the German Government, which will support food assistance to 275,000 displaced Iraqis in four provinces across the country. “Germany highly appreciate ... 49

United Nations - 2017-06-21 01:32Thousands of vulnerable Iraqi and Syrian refugee families affected by conflict in northern Iraq aim to profit from new livelihood ventures of the United Nations agriculture agency. ... 75

BAS News - 2017-06-20 16:25 ERBIL — Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani on Tuesday met with Jan Kubiš, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq. During the meeting, Barzani and the UN official discussed a range of topics, particularly the fo ... 76

BAS News - 2017-06-19 13:40 ERBIL — On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Iraq, Ján Kubiš, urged the Government of Iraq to pursue accountability for the perpetrators ... 68

BAS News - 2017-06-18 16:47 ERBIL— In series of conferences held in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) office in Geneva, Kurdish activists and officials discussed Kurdistan Region's appeal for running the independence referendum. In the conferences held June 9-16, Kurd ... 73

BAS News - 2017-06-17 15:32 MOSUL — More than 100,000 Iraqi civilians remain trapped in Islamic State (IS)-held areas in the western parts of Mosul, after nearly nine months of military operation against the extremist group, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. The rep ... 80

Waar Media - 2017-06-15 14:17 WAAR-DUHOK: A deal between the United States and Qatar for F-15 fighter jets and a visit by two American warships to Doha are showing the vital military links Washington maintains to the country now at the center of a dispute with Arab nations. Qatar sai ... 69

BAS News - 2017-06-07 23:52 LEEDS — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has opened another camp for displaced people in Iraq, as a result of the continuing surge in the number of people fleeing western Mosul. The UN refugee agency said in a press release on We ... 34

KurdPress - 2017-06-03 11:16Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced May 24 that it had formally informed the United Nations Security Council of its intention to hold a referendum on the independence of Kurdistan through the UN special representative to Iraq, Jan Kubis. ... 74

BAS News - 2017-06-02 14:15 More waves of people are expected to be dislodged from Mosul ERBIL — The UN Refugee Agency calls for an amount of US $126 million to be provided urgently to meet the critical needs of the civilians displaced from Mosul, said the United Nations High Commi ... 14

Reuters - 2017-06-01 17:16PARIS (Reuters) - Several French soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, after a mortar attack on a United Nations' peacekeeping camp in northern Mali, France's armed forces said on Thursday, highlighting the ongoing insecurity in the West African ... 57

BAS News - 2017-06-01 02:15 BAGHDAD — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are extremely concerned about the health conditions of about 180 000 men, women and children that are reportedly still trapped inside west Mosul’s old city where ... 48

E-Kurd - 2017-05-31 11:21 NEW YORK,— The United Nations envoy to Iraq said the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s senior officials intend to hold the referendum for the independence of Kurdistan this year. In a briefing to the U.N. Security Council in New York on Monday, Special Representa ... 75

BAS News - 2017-05-31 00:15 LEEDS — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) released a report on Tuesday, expressing its concerns about the humanitarian conditions inside western Mosul’s Old City, as around 180,000 are currently living in miserable conditions. According to th ... 50

Reuters - 2017-05-30 19:40UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A quarter of Yemen's people are on the brink of famine, parents are marrying off young daughters so someone else can care for them and cholera cases are escalating, U.N. officials warned on Tuesday as they work to avert a Saudi- ... 62

Reuters - 2017-05-30 12:20KINSHASA (Reuters) - A litany of killing, rape, mutilation, pillage and torture committed by successive governments and armed groups in Central African Republic from 2003-15 may constitute crimes against humanity, the United Nations said in a report on Tu ... 45

KurdPress - 2017-05-30 11:40The Secretary General of Kurdistan Democratic Social Party, Muhammad Haji Mahmoud, stated that the United Nations has expressed its readiness to supervise the possible referendum of the region to ask its people if they want or remain as a part of Iraq or ... 72

BAS News - 2017-05-29 23:32 MOSUL — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) along with shelter and camp management partners, are working flat out to receive Mosul displaced in camps and provide emergency shelter and assistance in and around Mosul to people unable ... 54

BAS News - 2017-05-29 23:32 LEEDS — Hundreds of thousands of civilians in the areas still held by the so-called Islamic State (IS) are struggling to find food, water and medical supplies, according to the United Nations (UN). UN Humanitarian Coordinator Lise Grande told Reuters lat ... 66

Reuters - 2017-05-29 11:15BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of civilians in parts of Mosul held by Islamic State are struggling to get food, water and medicine, the United Nations said, days into a new push by U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops to take the northern city. ... 33

BAS News - 2017-05-25 21:01 ERBIL— Kurdistan Region's General Board of Tourism on Thursday asked Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) to assist the board for membership with the United Nations' special agency, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), according to the spokesperson o ... 41

Reuters - 2017-05-25 18:05DAKAR (Reuters) - Militia violence in Central African Republic has killed around 300 people and displaced 100,000 in the last two weeks, the United Nations and the government said on Thursday, in the worse displacement since a 2013 civil war. ... 47

Reuters - 2017-05-25 12:45DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Nations urged authorities in Houthi-controlled Sanaa on Thursday to investigate a "grave attack" on the convoy of its envoy to Yemen during his visit to the capital. ... 62

E-Kurd - 2017-05-23 08:58 Deyan Ranko Brashich | Exclusive to Ekurd.net It may surprise you to learn that the United States as of today has only two serving, Senate approved Ambassadors, Nikki Haley, the envoy to the United Nations and David Freedman, the Ambassador to Israel. Al ... 66

BAS News - 2017-05-21 22:13 ERBIL — The United Nations Security Council is set to hold a session about the situation of Iraq on Monday, May 22, 2017 at 3 p.m. New York time (10 p.m. Baghdad time). The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq, Ján Kubiš, will brie ... 67

BAS News - 2017-05-20 17:23 ERBIL – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Iraq, Ján Kubiš, strongly condemned the series of suicide bombing attacks in Baghdad and Basra which caused many casualties, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq ... 61

Reuters - 2017-05-19 19:35UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea's deputy U.N. envoy said on Friday that the United States needed to roll back its "hostile policy" toward the country before there could be talks between the pair. ... 68

BAS News - 2017-05-19 01:07 LODZ — With the military confrontations intensifying on a steady pace between the Iraqi army and Islamic State (IS) militants in Mosul, over 200,000 more civilians could be displaced as the result of the clashes, a senior United Nations humanitarian offi ... 52

Reuters - 2017-05-18 17:36GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria peace talks hosted by the United Nations in Geneva spawned a new series of meetings on Thursday with no hint of tangible progress toward a deal to end the six-year-old civil war. ... 59

Reuters - 2017-05-18 10:50ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday up to 200,000 more people could flee Mosul as fighting intensifies between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants in the city. ... 57

Reuters - 2017-05-18 02:10UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Wednesday she will visit Turkey and Jordan from May 19-25 to see how Syrian refugees "are coping, day in and day out," to see U.N. humanitarian work and highlight the U.S ... 72

Reuters - 2017-05-16 21:23BANGUI (Reuters) - As many as 100 people were killed last week in militia violence in southern Central African Republic and fighting fueled by ethnic and religious rivalries is spreading, the United Nations said on Tuesday. ... 68

Reuters - 2017-05-16 19:40UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Investigators from the global chemical weapons watchdog found that two Syrian women were exposed to sulfur mustard in an apparent attack in Aleppo province last September, a report to the United Nations Security Council said. ... 96

Waar Media - 2017-05-12 17:26 WAAR-DUHOK: Two bombs have gone off in Rome close to a post office and a United Nations building. Police and firefighters are on the scene of the blasts which is believed to be near a side entrance of the post office. Repubblica is reporting that two IED ... 54

United Nations - 2017-05-12 04:35The United Nations today said that it remains deeply concerned by the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in the eastern part of Syria’s Ghouta, where some 400,000 people are trapped. ... 95

United Nations - 2017-05-12 04:35The head of the United Nations emergency food relief agency today appealed for “regular, unimpeded and sustained” humanitarian access during meetings with senior government officials and partners in Lebanon and Syria – his first official visit since assum ... 79

United Nations - 2017-05-12 04:35Following today’s signing of a deal to setup so-called ‘de-escalation zones’ in Syria, the United Nations envoy for the war-torn country praised the agreement and said its success could bolster the path towards peace talks. ... 71

United Nations - 2017-05-12 04:35The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said today that next week’s UN-facilitated talks in Geneva will benefit from the dynamics of the negotiations which began in Astana, Kazakhstan, earlier this month, which saw an agreement bet ... 64

Reuters - 2017-05-11 13:59GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations still has "a million questions" about a Syria deal struck last week by Russia, Turkey and Iran, with a reported reduction in the fighting but aid convoys remain almost totally stalled, a U.N. aid official said on Thur ... 57

Reuters - 2017-05-11 11:57LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations is seeking a further $900 million this year for Somalia, where more than 6 million people need humanitarian assistance and 275,000 malnourished children are at risk of starvation, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sa ... 66

Reuters - 2017-05-09 18:34UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The European Union foreign policy chief urged the United States on Tuesday to keep funding U.N. agencies that deal with issues such as food aid, refugees and children, describing their work as sometimes more important to peace a ... 86

BAS News - 2017-05-09 01:11 LEEDS — More than 435,000 displaced people have left the northern Iraqi city of Mosul since the start of the operation against the so-called Islamic State (IS) in western Mosul, the United Nations (UN) said. According to the UN, around 403,000 internally ... 64

Reuters - 2017-05-08 23:11GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Monday that he was reconvening peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva on May 16. ... 81

BAS News - 2017-05-08 15:17 BAGHDAD — The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has welcomed a contribution of 9.7 million from the government of Japan to address the shelter needs for those affected by the ongoing crisis in Iraq, said the UN-Habitat in a Monday s ... 58

Reuters - 2017-05-08 03:17KIGALI (Reuters) - War and famine have forced more than 2 million children in South Sudan to flee their homes, creating the most worrying refugee crisis in the world, the United Nations said on Monday. ... 59

BAS News - 2017-05-07 20:11 BAGHDAD — The government of Japan has contributed with an additional $16.7 million to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Funding Facility for Stabilization (FFS) and Iraq Crisis Response and Resilience Programme (ICRRP) to promote stabiliz ... 62

Reuters - 2017-05-06 16:13MANILA (Reuters) - A United Nations expert who irked the Philippines with a surprise visit said on Saturday she was keen to return and investigate alleged summary killings, but only if President Rodrigo Duterte drops his condition that she must hold a deb ... 72

Reuters - 2017-05-04 15:10BOGOTA (Reuters) - A member of a United Nations team working on a project in Colombia to substitute illegal crops was kidnapped by dissident former FARC rebels who have rejected the peace process, U.N., police and military sources said on Thursday. ... 10

Waar Media - 2017-05-02 15:19 WAAR-DUHOK: United Nations Mine Action Service Director Agnes Marcaillou is participating in the Astana meeting involving military experts from the guarantor countries of the Syrian ceasefire, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry’s press service said in a stateme ... 20

Reuters - 2017-05-01 20:31UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Syrian government forces of likely dropping bombs containing nerve agents at least three times elsewhere in the country before an April 4 attack that killed dozens of people and sparked a ret ... 22

United Nations - 2017-04-30 04:44Following reports of airstrikes that damaged hospitals in northern Syria, two senior United Nations humanitarian officials today called for an end to such attacks. ... 28

United Nations - 2017-04-30 04:44With fighting intensifying on numerous fronts in Syria over the past months, the top United Nations humanitarian official today urged consolidation of the nationwide ceasefire, most importantly a pause in fighting on the outskirts of Damascus, to enable t ... 11

United Nations - 2017-04-30 04:44The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today appointed Yusra Mardini – a Syrian refugee who together with her sister swam for three hours in the Mediterranean Sea off Turkey’s coast, pulling a capsizing boat of refugees to ... 17

United Nations - 2017-04-30 04:44Concluding a visit to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan where he met with young people displaced from their homes, an advocate for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) underlined the need to respect their rights and empower them so that they can grow ... 11

Reuters - 2017-04-27 20:42UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, pushed the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to focus "all eyes and all pressure" on Russia to try and end the Syrian conflict and pressed for council action even if it fac ... 26
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